tourteaux
\tuʁ.to\
The verdict
“tourteaux” is uncommon French (frequency #71,971 among 3,703 “T” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #71,971
- frequency rank, French
- 3,703
- “T” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de tourteau.
Corpus desk
Index FR-tourteaux · tourteaux · French
tourteaux · rank #71,971 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #71,971
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,703
- PHOTO-FINISH Toula
Nearest frequency peer: Toula (-1 rank slots)
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Rangs de longue queue près de « tourteaux »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- torpilleur
torpilleur
28,033 corpus weight
- torrentielle
torrentielle
28,032 corpus weight
- Toula
Toula
28,031 corpus weight
- tourteaux
tourteaux
28,030 corpus weight
- trahissait
trahissait
28,029 corpus weight
- tranquillis…
tranquillisants
28,028 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « tourteaux » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | tourteaux |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \tuʁ.to\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #71,971 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « tourteaux » en français
Rare enough to double-check
tourteaux is uncommon French at frequency #71,971 among 3,703 “T” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \tuʁ.to\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de tourteau.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for tourteaux, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is tourteaux, spelled T-O-U-R-T-E-A-U-X.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de tourteau.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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